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July 3, 2010

G81: Red Sox 9, Orioles 3

Lester (7-5-1-1-7, 100) stymied the Orioles yet again -- and his teammates struck early for an easy victory.

Lester loaded the bases in the top of the first with one out, but got Adam Jones to GIDP to wriggle out of danger. After that, he was solid. Jones was the first of 10 straight batters Lester set down through the fourth. He gave up a run on three hits in the fifth, and retired his last seven batters. Ramon Ramirez and Robert Manuel finished up.

RBI doubles from Kevin Youkilis, J.D. Drew (2 RBI), and Daniel Nava gave Boston a 4-0 lead in the first. Yook blasted a hanging slider over the Wall for a two-run dong in the fifth. Two more run-scoring doubles in the eighth, from Mike Cameron and Ortiz, along with two errors pushed the Sox's lead to 9-1.

In addition to his two doubles, Ortiz also singled, walked and scored twice. Drew doubled, singled twice, and walked. Nava had two hits and Eric Patterson singled, walked, and scored twice.

The Yankees scored 11 runs in the third inning this afternoon and beat the Blue Jays 11-3. The Rays beat the Twins 8-6. The East standings remain the same: Red Sox 0.5 GB, Rays 2 GB.

I don't normally advocate the viewing of FOX baseball but Kevin Millar is doing the Mets/Nats game with Joe Buck. This is actually pretty good. Millar is being his normal, hilarious self. He's not being watered down here, except by the FCC.

I remember y'all talking about this before. It sounds beautiful. We have friends in Ann Arbor and have crossed the border into Canada near there I guess. Take some pics with your iPhone. I love being on the water.

Tim, the links work great. I'm going to have to investigate how to link to an iPhone photo just taken. yfrog, huh?

Laura, the geese are wonderful to look at, especially when they are flying. But, we have way too many that hang around and mess up the backyard. It wasn't too bad when our dog was younger and could shoo them away. But, it is nature and I'm good with it. I like our bald eagle better. There is only one of her.

don loving jerry's general hatred and dismissal of the human race, then they learned that tom caron sends out those kinds of emails --and don totally lost it again.

squeaking entire sentences like "the 1-1 is low and it's 2-1"!

they went to commercial and when they came back, i got the early audio. remy was saying something like "i really can't stand this" and don was laughing and snorting, "there's a lot of things you can't stand lately".

i hear some guffaws, a few seconds of quiet, and then don is right back on the air, totally composed.

i figured he would be limited, but honestly, if he was on nesn in remy's spot, i would not care. i get enough analysis elsewhere. just watching the game, he'd be 3-4 hours of fun every night. (hell, let don go and have remy and mirror!!)

No, we are still in Brooklyn and will be here until next Saturday. Trying to help my daughter through these tough early days. We are also really enjoying the neighborhood when we get a chance to get out!

Well, I was. I realized that we were not going to lose this game and that putting in someone like Bard would have been ridiculous with an 8 run lead. But nevertheless, it just shows the lack of depth we do have in the pen. To be honest, I had no idea who that pitcher was! (I was watching on the computer with the sound off and was too tired to look up his number.)

I remain worried about the pen. I know I am not alone, but I guess I am just fixated on it. Even if every player on the DL returns, we would still be hampered by an ineffective bullpen.

Just saying... I guess I say it too often, given Laura's comment. I will stop harping on it and find some new theme to vent about.

It's true our bullpen has issues. It's also true that a nobody put in to close out an easy win ("Robert Friggin' Manuel") doesn't need to be perfect - we get the win, we save more valuable arms, and we don't have to care about his performance. Those guys play a role, too.

I knew you were just teasing me! But I do feel like a broken record to myself these days. It just breaks my heart when the team puts in a great effort, both the starting pitcher and the position players, and then some jerk from the pen blows the game. OTOH, watching Joba do it is great fun!

I totally understood why Mr Nobody was pitching the 9th. I was just on my usual rant, thinking Tito will leave him in til we are just three runs up and then bring in Papelbomb to blow the game.